Death in the Stocks
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  • Published: 30 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473595507
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00

Death in the Stocks

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1 Dec 2010
Audiobook
30 Sep 2021
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1 Jun 2006
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Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels, now in a handsome new package

A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder...

An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ...

It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are tested to their limits...
  • Published: 30 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473595507
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00
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Georgette Heyer

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

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Praise for Death in the Stocks

Miss Heyer's characters act and speak with an ease that is as refreshing as it is rare in the ordinary mystery novel

Times Literary Supplement

Death in the Stocks is that rare and refreshing thing - a clever problem stated, developed and finally solved in terms of character

The Times

'The wittiest of detective writers'

Daily Mail

'Heyer's characters and dialogue are an abiding delight to me ... I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word "Go"'

Dorothy L. Sayers

'Sharp, clear and witty'

The New Yorker

'Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended'

New York Times

'We had better start ranking Heyer alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey and Allingham'

San Francisco Chronicle

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